Toscanini | Define Toscanini at Dictionary.com Toscanini [tos-kuh-nee-nee; Italian taws-kah-nee-nee] /ˌtɒs kəˈni ni; Italian ˌtɔs kɑˈni ni/ Spell 1. Arturo [ahr-too r-oh;; Italian ahr-too-raw] /ɑrˈtʊər oʊ;; Italian ɑrˈtu rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1867–1957, Italian orchestra conductor, in the U.S. after 1928. Dictionary.com Unabridged Examples from the Web for Toscanini Expand Historical Examples The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten But there can be no doubt on that point in the case of Toscanini. Vocal Mastery Harriette Brower Mr. Toscanini does not eat before a performance, and his family wait with the evening meal until he joins them. An Autobiography Igor Stravinsky Mr. Toscanini had been right about the Beethoven Concerto and had correctly remembered the purely orchestral numbers as well. British Dictionary definitions for Toscanini Expand noun 1.

Arturo (arˈtuːro). 1867–1957, Italian conductor; musical director of La Scala, Milan, and of the NBC symphony orchestra (1937–57) in New York Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Arturo Toscanini (Conductor) - Short Biography Arturo Toscanini (Conductor) Born: March 25, 1867 - Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy Died: January 16, 1957 - Bronx, New York City, NY, USA Arturo Toscanini was an Italian conductor.

One of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th century and 20th century, he was renowned for his brilliant intensity, his restless perfectionism, his phenomenal ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his photographic memory. As music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra he became a household name through his radio and television broadcasts and many recordings of the operatic and symphonic repertoire. He is widely considered to have been one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century. Biography Arturo Toscanini won a scholarship to the local music conservatory, where he studied the cello. He joined the orchestra of an opera company, with which he toured South America in 1886. While presenting Aida in Rio de Janeiro, Leopoldo Miguez, the locally hired conductor, reached the summit of a two-month escalating conflict with the performers due to his rather poor command of the work, to the point that the singers went on strike and forced the company's impresario to seek a substitute conductor. But on the evening of June 30, 1886 maestro Carlo Superti found himself booed by the audience, now prompted by the disgruntled Miguez.

Yet another last-minute substitute conductor, Aristide Venturi, could not overcome a hostile, hollering public, and was forced to leave the podium. In desperation, the singers suggested the name of their assistant Chorus Master, who knew the whole opera by heart. Although he had no conducting experience, Toscanini was forcibly persuaded by the musicians to take up the baton at 9:15 P.M., discarded the score, and led a sensational performance of the two-and-a-half hour opera completely from memory. The public was taken by surprise, at first by the youth and sheer aplomb of this unknown conductor, then by his solid mastery. The result was astounding acclaim. For the rest of that season Toscanini conducted eighteen operas, all with absolute success. Thus began his career as a conductor, at age 19. Upon returning to Italy, Asrturo Toscanini set out on a dual path for some time.

He continued to conduct, his first appearance in Italy being at the Teatro Carignano in Turin, on November 4, 1886, in the world premiere of the revised version of Alfredo Catalani's Edmea (it had had its premiere in its original form at La Scala, Milan, on February 27 of that year). This was the beginning of Toscanini's life-long friendship and championing of Catalani; he even named his first daughter Wally after the heroine of Catalani's opera La Wally. However, he also returned to his chair in the cello section, and participated as cellist in the world premiere of Verdi's Otello (La Scala, Milan, 1887) under the composer's supervision. Verdi, who habitually complained that conductors never seemed interested in directing his scores the way he had written them, was impressed by reports from Arrigo Boito about Toscanini's ability to interpret his scores. The composer was also impressed when Toscanini consulted him personally about the Te Deum, suggesting an allargando where it was not set out in the score.

Verdi said that he had left it out for fear that "certain interpreters would have exaggerated the marking". Gradually the young musician's reputation as an operatic conductor of unusual authority and skill supplanted his cello career. In the following decade he consolidated his career in Italy, entrusted with the world premieres of Puccini's La bohème and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. In 1896, Toscanini conducted his first symphonic concert (in Turin, with works by Schubert, Johannes Brahms , Tchaikovsky, and Wagner). He exhibited a considerable capacity for hard work: in 1898 he conducted 43 concerts in Turin By 1898 he was also resident conductor at La Scala, and he remained there until 1908, returning during the 1920ן¿½s. He took the Scala Orchestra to the USA on a concert tour in 1920-1921; it was during that tour that Toscanini made his first recordings (for the Victor Talking Machine Company).

International Recognition Outside of Europe, Asrturo Toscanini conducted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (1908-1915) as well as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (1926-1936). He toured Europe with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1930; he and the musicians were acclaimed by critics and audiences wherever they went. Toscanini was the first non-German conductor to appear at Bayreuth (1930-1931), and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra was the first non-German orchestra to play there. In the 1930ן¿½s he conducted at the Salzburg Festival (1934-1937) and the inaugural concert in 1936 of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra in what later became Tel Aviv, and later performed with them in Jerusalem, Haifa, Cairo and Alexandria. Opposition to Italian fascist government In 1919, Asrturo Toscanini ran unsuccessfully as a Fascist parliamentary candidate in Milan. He had been called "the greatest conductor in the world" by Fascist leader Benito Mussolini.

However, he became disillusioned with fascism and repeatedly defied the Italian dictator after the latter's ascent to power in 1922. He refused to display Mussolini's photograph or conduct the Fascist anthem Giovinezza at La Scala. He raged to a friend, "If I were capable of killing a man, I would kill Mussolini." At a memorial concert for Italian composer Giuseppe Martucci on May 14, 1931 at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, he was ordered to begin by playing Giovinezza but he refused even though the fascist foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano was present in the audience. Afterwards he was, in his own words, "attacked, injured and repeatedly hit in the face" by a group of blackshirts. Mussolini, incensed by the conductor's refusal, had his phone tapped, placed him under constant surveillance and took away his passport. The passport was returned only after world outcry over Toscanini's treatment. He left Italy until 1946, when he returned to conduct a concert at the restored La Scala Opera House, which had been bombed during World War II.

The NBC Symphony Orchestra Fleeing Italy, Asrturo Toscanini returned to the United States where the NBC Symphony Orchestra was created for him in 1937. He conducted his first NBC broadcast concert on December 25, 1937, in NBC Studio 8-H in New York City's Rockefeller Center. The acoustics of the specially built studio were very dry; some remodeling in 1939 added a bit more reverberation. (In 1950, the studio was further remodeled for television productions; today it is used by NBC for Saturday Night Live. In 1980, it was used by Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in a series of special televised NBC concerts called "Live From Studio 8H", the first one being a tribute to Toscanini, punctuated by clips from his television concerts.) The NBC broadcasts were preserved on large transcription discs, recorded at both 78-rpm and 33-1/3 rpm, until NBC began using magnetic tape in 1947.

NBC used special RCA high fidelity microphones both for the broadcasts and for recording them; these microphones can be seen in some photographs of Toscanini and the orchestra. Some of Toscanini's recording sessions for RCA Victor were mastered on sound film in a process developed about 1941, as detailed by RCA producer Charles O'Connell in his memoirs, On and Off The Record. In addition, hundreds of hours of Toscanini's rehearsals with the NBC were preserved and are now housed in the Toscanini Legacy archive at The New York Public Library. Asrturo Toscanini was often criticized for neglecting American music; however, on November 5, 1938, he conducted the world premieres of two orchestral works by Samuel Barber , Adagio for Strings and Essay for Orchestra. In 1945, he led the orchestra in recording sessions of the Grand Canyon Suite by Ferde Grofé in Carnegie Hall (supervised by Grofé) and An American in Paris by George Gershwin in NBC's Studio 8-H.

He also conducted broadcast performances of Copland's El Salon Mexico; Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with soloists Earl Wild and Benny Goodman and Piano Concerto in F with pianist Oscar Levant; and music by other American composers, including marches of John Philip Sousa. He even wrote his own orchestral arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner, which was incorporated into the NBC Symphony Orchestra 's performances of Verdi's Hymn of the Nations. (Earlier, while music director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra , he conducted music by Abram Chasins , Bernard Wagenaar, and Howard Hanson.) In 1940, Asrturo Toscanini took the orchestra on a "goodwill" tour of South America. Later that year, Toscanini had a disagreement with NBC management over their use of his musicians in other NBC broadcasts. This, among other reasons, resulted in a letter which Toscanini wrote on March 10, 1941 to RCA's David Sarnoff.

He stated that he now wished "to withdraw from the militant scene of Art" and thus declined to sign a new contract for the up-coming winter season, but left the door open for an eventual return "if my state of mind, health and rest will be improved enough". So Leopold Stokowski was engaged on a three-year contract instead and served as the NBC Symphony Orchestra 's music director from 1941 to 1944. Toscanini's state of mind soon underwent a change and he returned as Stokowski's co-conductor for the latter's second and third seasons resuming full control in 1944. One of the more remarkable broadcasts was in July 1942, when Asrturo Toscanini conducted the American premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich 's Symphony No. 7. Due to World War II, the score was microfilmed in the Soviet Union and brought by courier to the USA. Leopold Stokowski had previously given the USA premieres of D.

Shostakovich 's 1st, 3rd and 6th Symphonies in Philadelphia, and in December 1941 urged NBC to obtain the score of the 7th as he wanted to conduct its premiere as well. But Toscanini coveted this for himself and there were a number of remarkable letters between the two conductors before Leopold Stokowski agreed to let Toscanini have the privilege of conducting the first performance. Unfortunately for New York listeners, a major thunderstorm virtually obliterated the NBC radio signals there, but the performance was heard elsewhere and preserved on transcription discs. It was later issued by RCA Victor in the 1967 centennial boxed set tribute to Toscanini, which included a number of NBC broadcasts never released on discs. In Testimony D. Shostakovich himself expressed a dislike for the performance, after he heard a recording of the broadcast. In Toscanini's later years he expressed dislike for the work and amazement that he had actually conducted it. In the summer of 1950, Toscanini led the orchestra on an extensive transcontinental tour.

It was during that tour that the well-known photograph of Toscanini riding the ski lift at Sun Valley, Idaho was taken. Toscanini and the musicians traveled on a special train chartered by NBC. The NBC concerts continued in Studio 8-H until the fall of 1950. They were then held in Carnegie Hall, where many of the orchestra's recording sessions had been held, due to the dry acoustics of Studio 8-H. The final broadcast performance, an all-Wagner program, took place on April 4, 1954, in Carnegie Hall. During this concert Toscanini suffered a memory lapse reportedly caused by a transient ischemic attack, although some have attributed the lapse to having been secretly informed that NBC intended to end the broadcasts and disband the NBC Symphony Orchestra . He never conducted live in public again. That June, he participated in his final recording sessions, remaking portions of two Verdi operas so they could be commercially released. Toscanini was 87 years old when he retired. After his retirement, the NBC Symphony Orchestra was reorganized as the Symphony of the Air , making regular performances and recordings, until it was disbanded in 1963.

On radio, he conducted seven complete operas, including La bohème and Otello, all of which were eventually released on records and CD, thus enabling the modern listening public to have at least some idea of what an opera conducted by Toscanini sounded like. Final Years With the help of his son Walter, Asrturo Toscanini spent his remaining years editing tapes and transcriptions of his performances with the NBC Symphony. The "approved" recordings were issued by RCA Victor, which also has issued his recordings with the La Scala Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra , and Philadelphia Orchestra . His recordings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra (1937-1939) and Philharmonia Orchestra (1952) were issued by EMI. Various companies have issued recordings on compact discs of a number of broadcasts and concerts that he did not officially approve. Among these are stereophonic recordings of his last two NBC broadcast concerts. Sachs and other biographers have documented the numerous conductors, singers, and musicians who visited Toscanini during his retirement. He was a big fan of early television, especially boxing and wrestling telecasts, as well as comedy programs.

Asrturo Toscanini died at age 89 of a stroke at his home in the Riverdale section of the Bronx in New York City on January 16, 1957. His body was returned to Italy and was interred in the Cimitero Monumentale in Milan. His epitaph is taken from one account of his remarks concluding the 1926 premiere of Puccini's unfinished Turandot: "Qui finisce l'opera, perché a questo punto il maestro è morto" ("Here the opera ends, because at this point the maestro died [lit. 'is dead']"). During his funeral service, Leyla Gencer sang a part from Verdi's requiem. In his will, he left his baton to his protégée Herva Nelli. Toscanini was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987. Family Asrturo Toscanini married Carla De Martini on June 21, 1897, when she was not yet 20 years old. Their first child, Walter, was born on March 19, 1898.

A daughter, Wally, was born on January 16, 1900. Carla gave birth to another boy, Giorgio, in September 1901, but he died of diphtheria on June 10, 1906. Then, that same year, Carla gave birth to their second daughter, Wanda. Asrturo Toscanini worked with many great singers and musicians throughout his career, but few impressed him as much as the Russian-American pianist Vladimir Horowitz . They worked together a number of times and even recorded J. Brahms ' second piano concerto and Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto with the NBC Symphony Orchestra for RCA. Vladimir Horowitz also became close to Toscanini and his family. In 1933, Wanda Toscanini married Vladimir Horowitz , with the conductor's blessings and warnings. It was Wanda's daughter, Sonia, who was once photographed by Life playing with the conductor. During World War II, Toscanini lived in Wave Hill, a historic home in Riverdale.

Despite the reported infidelities revealin Toscanini's letters documented by Harvey Sachs, he remained married to Carla until she died on June 23, 1951. Innovations & Premieres At La Scala, which had what was then the most modern stage lighting system installed in 1901 and an orchestral pit installed in 1907, Toscanini pushed through reforms in the performance of opera. He insisted on dimming the house-lights during performances. As his biographer Harvey Sachs wrote: "He believed that a performance could not be artistically successful unless unity of intention was first established among all the components: singers, orchestra, chorus, staging, sets, and costumes." Toscanini favored the traditional orchestral seating plan with the first violins and cellos on the left, the violas on the near right, and the second violins on the far right.

Asrturo Toscanini conducted the world premieres of many operas, four of which have become part of the standard operatic repertoire: Pagliacci, La bohème, La Fanciulla del West and Turandot; he took an active role in Alfano's completion of Puccini's Turandot. He also conducted the first Italian performances of Siegfried, Götterdämmerung, Salome, Pelléas et Mélisande, Euryanthe as well as the South American premieres of Tristan und Isolde and Madama Butterfly and the North American premiere of Boris Godunov. Source: Mostly Wikipedia Website (July 2010) Contributed by Aryeh Oron (July 2010) Arturo Toscanini | Italian conductor | Britannica.com Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini, (born March 25, 1867, Parma , Italy —died Jan. 16, 1957, New York City , N.Y., U.S.), Italian conductor, considered one of the great virtuoso conductors of the first half of the 20th century.

Toscanini © National Broadcasting Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Toscanini studied at the conservatories of Parma and Milan , intending to become a cellist. At the age of 19, when playing at the opera house at Rio de Janeiro , he was called upon to fill in for the conductor and performed Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida from memory. He came into prominence as a conductor in Italy and elsewhere and was appointed musical director of La Scala , Milan, in 1898, and of the Metropolitan Opera , New York City, in 1908. He conducted the New York Philharmonic -Symphony Orchestra from 1928 to 1936 and appeared with orchestras all over the world, except those of Italy and Germany during the Fascist regimes. From 1937 to 1954 he directed the NBC Symphony , an orchestra sponsored by the U.S. radio network. Arturo Toscanini, c. 1935. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Toscanini became principally known for his readings of the operas of Verdi and the symphonies of Beethoven, and he gave remarkable performances of the music of Wagner. His interpretations were notable for detail of phrasing, dynamic intensity, and an essentially classical conception of form. His phenomenal memory stood him in good stead when, suffering from poor eyesight, he was obliged always to conduct from memory. He commanded from the artists who worked under him a devotion that often made them reach something like his own fervour. Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini. Arturo Toscanini - Biography - IMDb Arturo Toscanini Jump to: Overview (2) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (1) | Trivia (40) | Personal Quotes (4) Overview (2) 16 January 1957 , Riverdale, New York, USA (stroke) Mini Bio (1) Arturo Toscanini was the most celebrated conductor of his time, considered by many to be the greatest conductor of the twentieth century. He revolutionized musical interpretation by frequently insisting that his orchestras play the music exactly as written, a highly unusual practice in the nineteenth century, when Toscanini began his career.

He conducted the world premieres of such operas as Puccini's "La Boheme" and "Turandot", and Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci". During his lifetime and for a short while afterwards,he was revered by critics (and still is by the older ones.) Today's younger critics, however, tend to look down on him, and call his fidelity to the printed score "lack of imagination" - a term which shows a total misunderstanding of Toscanini's achievements. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Albert Sanchez Moreno Spouse (1) ( 21 June 1897 - 23 June 1951) (her death) (4 children) Trivia (40) Toscanini was on the verge of retirement at age 70 when RCA chairman David Sarnoff asked him if he would like to conduct a radio orchestra especially created and trained just for him. Toscanini, not wishing to return to Fascist Italy because of possible personal harassment from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini , chose to take up permanent residence in the U.S.

and accepted the offer.Thus was born his incredible 17-year tenure with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, trained by Artur Rodzinski , which enabled him to be heard by millions at once, and extended his career into the age of LP records, television, hi-fi, and even two stereo recordings, the first of which was not released until 1986 (the second was not released in a stereo edition until January of 2007). Toscanini didn't retire until 1954, when he was 87. He remained an Italian citizen all his life, and was buried in Milan, Italy. Father-in-law of world-famous pianist Vladimir Horowitz . Principal conductor of the New York Philharmonic from 1928 to 1936, after making guest appearances in 1926 and 1927. Conducted at Bayreuth in 1930 and 1931; did not conduct in Germany again after Hitler rose to power. Conducted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1908 to 1915.

Made his conducting debut at the age of 19 in Rio de Janeiro when he led a performance of Aida from memory. Played second cello in the world premiere of Verdi's Otello in 1887. Oversaw editing and release of his broadcast performances following his retirement from conducting. Conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1941-1942 after a falling out with the NBC Symphony; returned to the latter the following season. He conducted the first concerts ever televised from Carnegie Hall (1951-1952). Could conduct 160 operas from memory. Toured the United States in 1920-1921 with the La Scala Opera orchestra (with which he made his first recordings) and in 1950 with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Took the NBC Symphony on a concert tour of South America in 1940. Took the New York Philharmonic on a concert tour of Europe in 1930. His 1936 recording of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony with the New York Philharmonic is regarded as one of the greatest recordings of all time.

Was offered numerous honorary doctorate degrees during his lifetime, but declined all of them except for one from Georgetown University. Being Dr. Toscanini meant nothing to him. Raised orchestral playing standards to new heights. Insisted on playing what was written, but was known to occasionally edit his scores - he cut Tchaikovsky's "Manfred Symphony" to forty-five minutes rather than playing it at its full length of one hour, for example, and he altered the "Waltz of the Flowers" in the "Nutcracker" Suite, changing the harp cadenza and adding an extra musical phrase to the ending of the waltz. He also, like nearly all conductors of the era, re-orchestrated sections of Robert Schumann's symphonies, though always in an unobtrusive manner that would not be noticed by anyone who was not an expert in Schumann. Made $42,000/season at the Metropolitan Opera; $110,000/season while conducting the New York Philharmonic; and $4,000 per concert with the NBC Symphony Orchestra.

Idolized Giuseppi Verdi; met the composer for the first time during rehearsals for the world premiere of Otello when Verdi wanted to know who was playing second cello. Could scarcely recall ever being kissed by his mother; always wondered if she ever really loved him. Pictured on a 25¢ US commemorative postage stamp in the Performing Arts series, issued 25 March 1989. He forbade the singing of encores during opera performances, insisting that opera is theater, and that the progress of the opera should never be interrupted so that the singers could show off their skills and cater to the audience.(Audiences at that time often demanded encores of arias and duets). It is because of Toscanini that the house lights are completely dimmed today throughout the world during opera performances. He instituted this reform at La Scala Opera House in Milan, Italy. Before him, the lights were never dimmed completely, only halfway, and the audience could see each other clearly, thus breaking their concentration on the performance. They could also wander around or play cards during the performance. All of this was changed after Toscanini came.

Throughout his recording career, which began in the 1920s and ended in 1954, Toscanini was under exclusive contract to the Victor Talking Machine Company, which, during his career, became RCA Victor, the company we still know today. During the past twenty years or so, however, many little-known, alternative labels (some of them referred to as "pirate labels") have managed to release versions of many of these same RCA Victor recordings. Many are of sound quality inferior to the RCA versions, but quite a few of these recordings on other labels are of performances that were never released during his lifetime. In 1990, and over the next two or three years, RCA Victor issued on CD all of the recordings Toscanini had made for that label, including some that had never been released, in an effort to present those recordings in high quality, remastered sound. They also released excellent quality videocassettes of Toscanini's television concerts. These items, however, began to be withdrawn after only a few years. However, in recent years, still higher-quality reissues of the Toscanini output were released by RCA Victor.

Several years ago, the classical CD label Guild began releasing versions of Toscanini concerts (including Verdi's "Otello"), in restored editions that are apparently more sonically faithful than any released before, and which not only contain the actual program, but supplementary material such as the announcer's comments (nearly always omitted previously) as well as rehearsal excerpts and interviews. In December of 1944, as the Battle of the Bulge was taking place in Europe, Toscanini conducted a two-part radio broadcast of Beethoven's only opera, "Fidelio", a German work whose plot revolves around the rescue of a woman's husband from a German prison, and the overthrow of the tyrannical governor of the prison amid rejoicing. To Toscanini, this gesture symbolized the imminent overthrow of Hitler. The performance later appeared on records and on CD. The Toscanini television concerts have all been released on DVD in the U.S., in formats that can be played on American DVD players. However, the numbering of the volumes is completely different, due to the fact that two one-hour concerts can easily fit on one DVD. Hence, Vol. 1 of the DVD collection contains both Vols.

1 and 2 of the concerts, and so on. The only volume that contains one concert is the one that contains Verdi's "Aida", and that is because the opera is two-and-a-half hours long, and therefore had to be divided into two programs. His supposedly ferocious temper was spoofed posthumously in the Tom and Jerry animated cartoon, "Carmen Get It!" (1962), in which Tom runs into the orchestra pit chasing Jerry in the Metropolitan Opera House, and the conductor breaks several instruments over Tom's head. Toscanini was famous both for having conducted at the Metropolitan, and for having conducted "Carmen". At Giuseppe Verdi's funeral in 1901, Toscanini conducted a performance of "Va, pensiero" (The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves), which ensured Verdi's success when it was first performed (it is from his opera "Nabucco"). Fifty-six years later, in 1957, the piece was played as part of a memorial concert for Toscanini, who had just died.

Some indication of the status he once held in classical music may be found in the fact that he is the only symphony orchestra conductor to have been featured on the cover of "Time" magazine three times - more than any other conductor (so far) in the history of music. Upon his death in 1957, the magazine gave him a full page obituary, while the 1954 death of 'Wilhelm Furtwangler', Toscanini's great rival, was covered by "Time" in only one brief paragraph. He is often accused by modern critics of setting his tempos too fast (the favorite criticism leveled at him) when often they only seemed faster because the notes were articulated so precisely by the orchestras that Toscanini conducted. Toscanini was a perfectionist, and he was notorious for refusing to approve the release of recordings that he had made which he felt weren't good enough. Because of this, he officially approved only one of his recordings of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, although he had recorded it four times previously. The finally approved version was a 1952 LP recording made by RCA Victor, in the studio, without an audience.

It became one of the biggest selling classical recordings of all time. Since the advent of compact discs, however, several of Toscanini's live recordings of the Ninth, none of which he actually approved for release on records, have appeared on several CD labels. His only television performance of the Beethoven Ninth was released on VHS in 1990, and on DVD in 2006. His first television concert, on March 20, 1948, was telecast on the same day that the Academy Awards were held that year. The schedules did not conflict because the Toscanini concerts were then broadcast in the early afternoon, and the Academy Awards had not begun to be shown on television yet. (They were broadcast on radio.) Toscanini was such a part of American culture in the 1940s that Bob Hope , who also had a radio program on NBC at the time, made a comic reference to him in the film My Favorite Brunette (1947). It is widely believed that Toscanini toured the U.S.

only once - in 1950, with the NBC Symphony Orchestra - but he also toured as conductor of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra during the early years of the twentieth century (Toscanini was with the Met from 1908 to 1914, and the company went on annual tours of the U.S. until 1987. Unfortunately, Toscanini conducted at the Met before they began making recordings, so we have no recordings of his performances of opera there.) During those years with the Met, Toscanini conducted fully staged performances of opera, as opposed to the concert performances of it that he was forced to do at NBC because the studio was unwilling to spend money on fully staged versions with scenery and costumes. After withdrawing their Toscanini Collection and not releasing anything by Toscanini for years, RCA Victor has begun once again to re-release its catalog of recordings by the conductor, this time in large box sets. Released so far have been "The Beethoven Symphonies" and "The Verdi Recordings" (containing all of the Verdi operas that Toscanini performed on NBC between 1946 and 1954).

For the amount of CD's that each boxed set contains, they are relatively low-priced. He was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: for Radio at 6336 Hollywood Boulevard, and for Recording at 6725 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Maintained that the Pope should have declared composer Ludwig van Beethoven a saint, because of Beethoven's accomplishments amid great personal suffering (the composer began going deaf in his thirties, and was totally deaf by the time he composed his "Missa Solemnis" and his "Ninth Symphony"). One of the many personalities mentioned in the song "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel. Personal Quotes (4) To some it is Napoleon; to some it is Alexander the Great; to some it is philosophical struggle. To me it is simply Allegro con Brio. [discussing the first movement of Beethoven's third (Eroica) symphony. Other versions of this quote have Toscanini saying, Some say this is Napoleon; some Hitler; some Mussolini.

To me it is simply Allegro Con Brio.] "If you want to please only the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast and too slow". I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since. [of German composer Richard Strauss , who accepted the sponsorship of the Nazis while Hitler was in power] To Strauss the composer I take off my hat. To Strauss the man I put it on again. See also Arturo Toscanini (1867 - 1957) - Genealogy Arturo Toscanini Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love Build your family tree online Share photos and videos in New York, New York County, New York, United States Place of Burial: NewspaperARCHIVE.com Text: ... asked return (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) Rose From Poor Boy Arturo Toscanini, Noted Dies in His Sleep Girl To Death in Woods SILVER ... Date: NewspaperARCHIVE.com Text: ... NEW YORK (AP)—Arturo Toscanini,. a poor ...

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of Maestro Arturo Tos... Date: NewspaperARCHIVE.com Text: "...ALL EDITIONS January Attend Funeral Rites For Toscanini NEW YORK UP Three thousand mourners yesterday at tended funeral services for ... Date: father About Arturo Toscanini Arturo Toscanini (Italian pronunciation: [arˈtuːro toskaˈniːni]; March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. One of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th and 20th century, he was renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his photographic memory. He conducted at La Scala from 1899, the Metropolitan Opera (New York) from 1908 to 1915, La Scala again after the war, then the New York Philharmonic (1928-36). As music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra from 1937 to 1954, he became a household name (especially in the U.S.) through his radio and television broadcasts and many recordings of the operatic and symphonic repertoire.

Toscanini | Bible.org Home Toscanini The great Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini was legendary for his fits of rage. The librarian of one of Toscaninis orchestras was particularly vexed by the maestros habit of throwing valuable musical scores at the musicians when angry. Watching closely, the librarian observed that Toscaninis first act when enraged was to take his baton in both hands and try to break it. If the baton snapped, Toscanini usually calmed down and rehearsal continued. If the baton did not break, he began hurling scores. The librarians solution? He made sure the conductor had a generous supply of flimsy batons on hand for rehearsal! Today in the Word, February, 1991, p.

22 Arturo Toscanini | Article about Arturo Toscanini by The Free Dictionary Arturo Toscanini | Article about Arturo Toscanini by The Free Dictionary Related to Arturo Toscanini: Wilhelm Furtwangler Toscanini, Arturo (ärto͞o`rō tōskänē`nē), 1867–1957, Italian conductor, internationally recognized as one of the world's great conductors. He studied cello at the Parma Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1885. After performing as a cellist with various minor orchestras in Italy, he went to Rio de Janeiro in 1886 to play in the opera orchestra there. Substituting as conductor, he demonstrated his ability to elicit an electrifying performance from the musicians, and he was engaged for the rest of the season.

Toscanini returned to Italy the next season (1886–87), and there subsequently conducted the premieres of Leoncavallo's Pagliacci (1892) and Puccini's La Bohème (1896) and the Italian premiere of Wagner's Götterdämmerung (1895). In 1898, Toscanini was appointed chief conductor and artistic director at La Scala, Milan, where he presented many new operas and the Italian premieres of many others, including Wagner's Die Meistersinger (1898) and Siegfried (1899). From 1908 to 1914 he conducted at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, where he gave American premieres of Puccini's Girl of the Golden West (1910), Wolf-Ferrari's Le donne curiose (1912), and other works. Toscanini returned to Italy during World War I.

With the reorganized La Scala Orchestra he toured (1920–21) Europe and the United States and was artistic director of La Scala from 1921 to 1929. Upon his return to the United States, he conducted the New York Philharmonic from 1928 to 1936 and the NBC Symphony Orchestra, which was formed for him, from 1937. His other important engagements included the Bayreuth Festivals (1930, 1931), of which he was the first non-German conductor, the Salzburg Festivals (1934–36), and the Lucerne Festivals (1937–39). In 1936 he conducted the inaugural concert of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra in Tel Aviv. Consistently antifascist, he refused several times to appear in fascist countries. In 1954 he retired as conductor of the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Toscanini commanded perfection from his orchestras and instilled them with remarkable energy. A tempestuous personality, he was nevertheless greatly respected by performers and was widely emulated by conductors.

His artistry is preserved in recordings, notably of the symphonies of Beethoven and works by Brahms, Wagner, Verdi, and many others. Bibliography See B. H. Haggin, Conversations with Toscanini (1959); letters ed. by H. Sachs (2002); biographies by H. H. Taubman (1950), S. Chotzinoff (1956), D. Ewen (rev. ed. 1960), B. H. Haggin (1967), and H. Sachs (1978); studies by R. C. Marsh (1956) and P. C. Hughes (2d enl. ed. 1970), and H. Sachs (1991). Toscanini, Arturo

Question: What was the Christian name of Italian conductor Toscanini?
Answer: ARTURO